Read this product evaluation someone wrote for Half-Life 2 at amazon.com

[Lyrids]

A lot of people like to share comments on games that aren't out yet at amazon, and normally I like to read what crap people spit out about new games, so today I decided to look up HL2. The first review caught my eyes immediately, here it is:

Half-Life 2 will revolutionize the PC gaming., July 10, 2003
Reviewer: A gamer from PA, USA

If you have been to E3 of 2003, you will probably think this game is the best thing ever, but the truth is, a lot of events in the tech demo shown in E3 are entirely scripted, so the game is probably not going to be 100% as good as in E3...

maybe only %60, I would say...

But is that %60 enough to make Half-Life 2 the best pc game ever released so far? Oh--yeah! Definitely!

Half-Life 2 emphasize greatly on physics, realistic physics, but that doesn't mean this game is played like Counter-Strike (CS some people prefer to call). It doesn't kill you with a head-shot or two mere shots from a pistol; the realisim of Half-Life 2 is not at its difficulty, but the interaction with the enviroment.

Imagine a game world that let you do a variety of things to counter your enemies, open the doors and unlock the triggers with almost unlimited solutions, instead of just have a gun in front and kill things that moves. This is what Half-Life 2 will offer! Every single objects are useable and the terrain can be deformed, and things behave the way they should! (Metal, wood, water...)

The game does require a very high-end machine to play, though, in order to see the absolutely realistice graphical presentation, but the game is very scalable and can be played on low-end machines as well. This game is the most anticipated game of 2003, and you will not be disappointed!



The review doesn't bother me too much, except for the very first line.

"If you have been to E3 of 2003, you will probably think this game is the best thing ever, but the truth is, a lot of events in the tech demo shown in E3 are entirely scripted, so the game is probably not going to be 100% as good as in E3..."

What the hell? Has this guy read anything about this game? There are no scripted events in Half-Life 2! Was he even listening to the presenter? Obviously not! Because he specifically explained that there was a realistic physics engine that allows objects to react to the environment. I'm sorry but I had to vent about this. I'm thinking the guy doesn't even know what scripted events are.

Here are the rest of the "reviews" for those that are interested: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...362603-1891067?v=glance&s=videogames&n=468642

 

[Prince of China]

There are SOME scripted events, but are more interactive.

 

[Llevar]

Originally posted by Lyrids
There are no scripted events in Half-Life 2!

This is entirely incorrect.
You meet Alyx, and she talks to you = scripted event.


There will be tonns of scripted sequences in hl2. What they were trying to empasize in the video is the fact that many things that LOOK like scripted sequences will not be and instead will be incorporated into the AI. Of course, this, in turn, just means that they have made the scripted sequences not attached to any specific area in the game but instead be driven by your actions in any area of your choosing, since, in the end, the behaviour of the soldiers taking out the door after you have blocked it is yet another scripted sequence only it can occur with any door as opposed to being tied to that particular one.

 

[Lyrids]

Re: Re: Read this product evaluation someone wrote for Half-Life 2 at amazon.com

Originally posted by Llevar
This is entirely incorrect.
You meet Alyx, and she talks to you = scripted event.


There will be tonns of scripted sequences in hl2. What they were trying to empasize in the video is the fact that many things that LOOK like scripted sequences will not be and instead will be incorporated into the AI. Of course, this, in turn, just means that they have made the scripted sequences not attached to any specific area in the game but instead be driven by your actions in any area of your choosing, since, in the end, the behaviour of the soldiers taking out the door after you have blocked it is yet another scripted sequence only it can occur with any door as opposed to being tied to that particular one.

I jumped ahead of myself. I know there are scripted sequences within the game, but what I meant to say was all of those things, the barrels hitting the pegs, the swinging beam, none of the are scripted into the game, they all react based on calculations done by the physics engine. Of course Alyx talking to you is going to be a scripted event, basically what I meant to say was almost any action that was scripted into HL2 can be done now by HL2's AI or physics engine.

 

[Jigen]

take everything you see on your screen with a grain of salt.

 

[Guest]

Huh? Jigen, Im pretty sure it IS illegal to lie during a press thingy. I dont think Gabe was kidding around when he said the stuff he did.

 

[urseus]

Are you sure?

Bush did it all the time before the Iraq war.




BAAAzing.

 

[Lifthz]

A lot of people do this crap with many games. They have no clue what they're talking about. Noone cares. This doesnt' deserve a post.

But yes, there are scripted events in Half-Life 2. There is no game in existence without a scripted event... A.I. itself is even scripted, but that's more complex and that's another story.

 

[Apos]

But yes, there are scripted events in Half-Life 2.

Not in the same sense as the "scripted sequences" in HL1.

Basically, it's a matter of equivocation. If even AI is "scripted" in the sense this guy is complaining about, then the word basically has no meaning, and it's ridiculous to talk about or mention.